Keep an Eye on the Sky

Keep an Eye on the Sky
Box set by
Big Star
Released15 September 2009
GenrePower pop
Length305:18
LabelRhino
Big Star chronology
In Space
(2005) 		Keep an Eye on the Sky
(2009)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic [1]
Pitchfork Media(9.3/10) [2]
PopMatters [3]

Keep an Eye on the Sky is a 4-CD, 98-song career retrospective box set from American rock group Big Star, released in 2009. It features 52 unreleased tracks: demos, alternate takes, and live performances. As well as material from founder member Chris Bell's earlier bands Rock City and Icewater, it includes all titles (in many cases as alternate mixes or demos) from Big Star's first three studio albums, #1 Record, Radio City, and Third/Sister Lovers, and a recording of a 1973 Big Star concert. Staged in January at Lafayette's Music Room, the Memphis venue used again in May for the Rock Writers' Convention, the concert took place after Bell's departure and before the remainder of the group began work on Radio City.[4] The box set's liner notes won a 2011 Grammy Award for author Robert Gordon.[5]

  1. ^ Keep an Eye on the Sky at AllMusic. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  2. ^ "Album Reviews: Big Star: Keep an Eye on the Sky". Pitchfork. 2009-09-18. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  3. ^ Lombardi, Anthony. "Making a Case for the Most Underappreciated Band in Pop Music < PopMatters". Popmatters.com. Retrieved 2011-06-17.
  4. ^ Eaton, Bruce (2009). Big Star's "Radio City". 33 1/3. Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-8264-2898-1.
  5. ^ "Robert Gordon". Memphis Music Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2013-11-02.